Easy to use
The most user friendly outside design app on the market! This app allowed me to design a stunning outdoor space for my home.
Description
YARD PLANNER is a simple drag-and-drop 2D landscape design app with all the tools you need to mock up your property, create new designs, and share them with friends and family.
YARD PLANNER is ideal for homeowners who want to try out fresh ideas for their yard. Useful for landscape professionals to share designs with clients and contractors. Also perfect for children and adults alike to exercise their imagination and creativity!
Use YARD PLANNER to select and place over 800 beautiful hand-drawn elements including trees, gardens, pools, patios, hammocks, driveways, houses and sheds, solar panels, and just about anything you might want for your property–even parties and weddings!
Features include:
• Sample designs to inspire or get you started
• Simple drag-and-drop functionality
• 34 palettes (800+ hand-drawn elements) to create your landscape design layout
• Resize, Rotate, Undo/Redo, Duplicate, Flip, Group
• Rotate elements with “Snap to 90” or turn off to rotate more precisely
• Snap to grid (elements stick to a re-sizeable grid of guidelines, turn on/off in Settings)
• Rulers (visible at edges of design; zoom in to the single unit; user selects feet/meters; can be turned on/off)
• Choose from 15 different background colors
• Sketch Tool (allows users to draw garden beds and other free-form shapes with an eraser and brushes of different colors, widths and opacity)
• Map Tool (This highly accurate mapping tool based on Google Maps allows you to drop pins at the corners of your property and import the map image with measurements into the app as a background.)
• North arrow (appears with Map Tool)
• Site Analysis palettes to mark the locations of your site’s utilities and light and moisture conditions
• Notes (allows users to tag elements in their designs with typed comments or descriptions)
• Light/Dark mode (changes Note tags and North arrow from white to black for visibility against light backgrounds.)
• Animated Figures (a palette of animated elements—a person, dog, cat, bird, and car—that move through your design on a looped or repeating path, adjustable speed, play and stop animation)
• Import a Photo as a background (useful for importing a digital image of your property plan)
• Create different Layers of elements in your design. Add, delete, rename layers, make each layer visible/invisible, lock/unlock for editing, and reorder layer position.
• In-app step-by-step guide to creating your Property Plan.
• Designs automatically save to the app’s Saved Designs gallery
• Share designs on social media
• Email an editable design so friends can edit one another’s designs and email them back and forth
***As featured in The New York Times, Fox News, USA Today, Gardenista, and more.
“Home Outside allows you to create intricate and varied landscapes…And when you’re finished designing your yard or indulging in a little dreamscaping, you can email results to friend.” –Kate Murphy, The New York Times
“The app gives you drag and drop tools to create a garden design idiosyncratic to your garden [and] allows you to choose hardscape materials, design paths and patios, and arrange furniture in your outdoor space.” –Dalilah Arja, Gardenista
“I can’t imagine a designer who wouldn’t want to have this on their phone or tablet. I’ve tried this app … it’s a great tool for a ‘quickie’ design that you can show clients … and then refine as you like.” –Jane Berger, Garden Design Online
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YARD PLANNER is ideal for homeowners who want to try out fresh ideas for their yard. Useful for landscape professionals to share designs with clients and contractors. Also perfect for children and adults alike to exercise their imagination and creativity!
Use YARD PLANNER to select and place over 800 beautiful hand-drawn elements including trees, gardens, pools, patios, hammocks, driveways, houses and sheds, solar panels, and just about anything you might want for your property–even parties and weddings!
Features include:
• Sample designs to inspire or get you started
• Simple drag-and-drop functionality
• 34 palettes (800+ hand-drawn elements) to create your landscape design layout
• Resize, Rotate, Undo/Redo, Duplicate, Flip, Group
• Rotate elements with “Snap to 90” or turn off to rotate more precisely
• Snap to grid (elements stick to a re-sizeable grid of guidelines, turn on/off in Settings)
• Rulers (visible at edges of design; zoom in to the single unit; user selects feet/meters; can be turned on/off)
• Choose from 15 different background colors
• Sketch Tool (allows users to draw garden beds and other free-form shapes with an eraser and brushes of different colors, widths and opacity)
• Map Tool (This highly accurate mapping tool based on Google Maps allows you to drop pins at the corners of your property and import the map image with measurements into the app as a background.)
• North arrow (appears with Map Tool)
• Site Analysis palettes to mark the locations of your site’s utilities and light and moisture conditions
• Notes (allows users to tag elements in their designs with typed comments or descriptions)
• Light/Dark mode (changes Note tags and North arrow from white to black for visibility against light backgrounds.)
• Animated Figures (a palette of animated elements—a person, dog, cat, bird, and car—that move through your design on a looped or repeating path, adjustable speed, play and stop animation)
• Import a Photo as a background (useful for importing a digital image of your property plan)
• Create different Layers of elements in your design. Add, delete, rename layers, make each layer visible/invisible, lock/unlock for editing, and reorder layer position.
• In-app step-by-step guide to creating your Property Plan.
• Designs automatically save to the app’s Saved Designs gallery
• Share designs on social media
• Email an editable design so friends can edit one another’s designs and email them back and forth
***As featured in The New York Times, Fox News, USA Today, Gardenista, and more.
“Home Outside allows you to create intricate and varied landscapes…And when you’re finished designing your yard or indulging in a little dreamscaping, you can email results to friend.” –Kate Murphy, The New York Times
“The app gives you drag and drop tools to create a garden design idiosyncratic to your garden [and] allows you to choose hardscape materials, design paths and patios, and arrange furniture in your outdoor space.” –Dalilah Arja, Gardenista
“I can’t imagine a designer who wouldn’t want to have this on their phone or tablet. I’ve tried this app … it’s a great tool for a ‘quickie’ design that you can show clients … and then refine as you like.” –Jane Berger, Garden Design Online
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User Rating
3.55 out of 5
20 ratings in Canada
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Way over rated
This app is probably fine for doing some rough “sketching” of a yard, but it’s terrible if you want to do anything exact. There are rulers and grid lines, but they are completely unrelated so doing something to scale is virtually impossible. You can’t adjust the ratio of pre-made shapes, so if you want a rectangle that is a different length to width ratio, you have to use multiple rectangles and overlap them. The list goes on…
Do not buy
There are some 4/5 reviews, I'm not sure if they've actually used this app. It's intensely frustrating to use. Theres no "send to back/front" so when clicking on things, they come forward and if there were things on top, now they're buried never to be seen again. All layers must be locked to zoom/rotate the design. The Google map feature was nice to start with, but good luck getting anywhere from there.
Awkward.
Doesn't design 3D or 2D from side views. Import map doesn't work. Want to design a deck? Don't use this
Quality app, with a few small flaws
The app doesn't have very detailed graphics, although the 'layers' feature, variety of deco and greenery, and positioning options are well-designed. Another minor flaw is that the app has a couple small bugs, such as decorations being selected still after entering and leaving the menu. The colours are gorgeous and blend together beautifully. Overall a 4/5, but with small changes it could be made perfect.
A great landscape layout tool!
This is a great app for people looking to plan or visualize landscapes. Very easy to use, allows you to import photos as well as google map images. I'd love to see more colours, more icons and more customization. Include those and I'd happily pay for the app. That being said, it's free and gets the job done. Thanks guys, well done!
No Functionality in Free App - Deleted
I feel like the designer is gaming Apple's app system to get you to download. This doesn't look good on the designer. This should be listed with a price ($20.99 Cdn) because there is no functionality to try before buying the app.
Home outside palette
Program keeps shutting down. Very frustrating to use. Sounded good but not worth two cents. Hopefully the developers will make some much needed reprogramming.
Useless
No functionality in the free version, only adds to buy extra stuff from them. Not recommended. I am deleting it.
Program is useless
The free version is terrible! No matter what I wanted to do, the program kept asking me to buy their bundles, at a ridiculous price. The hardscapes had to be one size or shape, there was no modification allowed- decks are built in different shapes, not just square... Not many options, even if you are willing to pay the price. Will definitely be deleting this app.
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Landscape Design, Yard Design
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See a pool in your yard
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Fiberon Decking
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Landscape Design - pro planner
home decor, flower garden plan
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Garden Planner+
Vegetable & Plant Area Design
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App Info
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Publisher
- Home Outside
- Languages
- English
- Recent version
- 3.6.2 (3 weeks ago )
- Released on
- Jun 1, 2011 (13 years ago )
- Also available in
- United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Russia, New Zealand, South Africa, Thailand, France, Sweden, Argentina, Ukraine, Poland, Spain, Netherlands, Philippines, Norway, China, Turkey, Egypt, Germany, Czechia, Austria, Singapore, Chile, Japan, Ireland, Italy, Denmark, Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Belgium, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Finland, Israel, Colombia, Mexico, Hungary, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Dominican Republic, Algeria, Ecuador, Azerbaijan, Taiwan, Greece, Belarus, Portugal, Pakistan, India, Peru, South Korea, Nigeria, Lebanon
- Last updated
- 2 days ago